No Place to Hide
"In No Place to Hide, Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., lays out in detail the post-9/11 marriage of private data and technology companies and government anti-terror initiatives to create something entirely new: a security-industrial complex. Drawing on his years of investigation, O'Harrow shows how the government now depends on burgeoning private reservoirs of information about almost every aspect of our lives to promote homeland security and fight the war on terror." "Consider the following: When you use your cell phone, the phone company knows where you are and when. If you use a discount card, your grocery and prescription purchases are recorded, profiled, and analyzed. Many new cars have built-in devices that enable companies to track from afar details about your movements. Software and information companies can even generate graphical link-analysis charts illustrating exactly how each person in a room is related to every other - through jobs, roommates, family, and the like. Almost anyone can buy a dossier on you, including almost everything it takes to commit identity theft, for less than fifty dollars." "O'Harrow tells the inside stories of key players in this new world, from software inventors to counterintelligence officials. He reveals how the government is creating a national intelligence infrastructure with the help of private companies.
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- I think mass government surveillance has been around since the mid-90s. In each successive administration it has been expanded. There's an excellent book called "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow, Jr. Written around 2002, it details public and private surveillance and how much of a losing battle it was for privacy. In 2002.
As for Wired, I has been a subscriber for 15 years but the magazine became 80% advertisements, 15% paid promotional articles, and 5% actual news. The online has gotten a little better but.. Matt Honan destroyed Wired.
- No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society by Robert O'Harrow, Jr.
- Related, a good read is "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow who studied and predicted corporate facial recognition and profiling back in 2006.
- Related for those that want to learn more about how retail establishments track you: "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow Jr. Details the marketing and retail industry's use of camera, AI, and customer tracking. The really scary part is that it was written in 2004.
- If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy the book "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow (2004!), which explores the surveillance state at the intersection of private coronations. Many of the ideas and topics discussed in the book, at the time sounding more like conspiracy theories, have come true.
https://www.amazon.com/Place-Hide-Robert-OHarrow-Jr/dp/07432...
- There's an old book you might find interesting called "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow. If you do read it, try to keep in mind that it was written in 2004, and then consider how much innovation is likely to have taken place since then.
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